Polk T50

While many of today's speaker shoppers are looking for increasingly smaller and more style-conscious home theater and music speakers, the performance and sound quality advantages of larger speakers have never been clearer. And while sound bars are...

The big Polk T50 tower speakers sound very good for the money. They look sharp, too, and feature a 1-inch tweeter, 6.5-inch woofer and two 6.5-inch bass radiators.

The Pioneer SP-PK52FS sounds better and costs the same. The Polk is only available in a black, wood-grain vinyl finish. Its treble detailing can, on some recordings, sound harsh.

The Polk T50 is a remarkably decent-sounding tower speaker for not a lot of money, but it faces stiff competition.